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If
I'm giving a presentation, I may not want to have to stop
to click a mouse to advance the slides. In my own case, I
need my hands free to sign autographs. Is there a way to
automate the presentation? My bet is that you can do this.
I mean, your middle name is "Automatic", right?
Or was it Bartholomew? |
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Automating your
presentation
An automated presentation is one where you don't have to
use the mouse or the keyboard to advance the slides. In
other words, the slides advance by themselves.
To automate your presentation, you must set timings for
each slide. A good way to set the timings is to use the
Rehearse Timings feature.
Follow these steps to add timings to your slides and
automate your presentation:
1. Click the Slide Show menu, then click Rehearse
Timings.
2. Rehearse your Slide Show as you did in the
previous section. When your presentation is done, a
message box appears, asking you if you want to record
the timings.
3. Click Yes. PowerPoint will record
the time you spend on each slide and apply this to your
presentation. Your Slide Show will now run
automatically.
Note:
Remember, you can also set timings for your slides using
the Slide Transition dialog box. A disadvantage of this
method, though, is that you're only guessing at how long
each slide should run.
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If
you can add your own narration and time the slides, does
the human have to be there at all to do the presentation? |  |
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Nope.
You can just put a computer running me in a room and I can
do the presentation myself. This is very handy at
conventions or at school science fairs -- where the
presenter can't be there all the time.
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Wow!
I could just have you present this show for Sue and me!
That way we could vacation in Tahiti... |
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Shh.
Don't tell our producer that. We might be out of a job! |
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Creating a self-run
kiosk presentation
If you're not going to be available to run your Slide
Show, create a self-running kiosk presentation. This sort
of presentation is often used at trade shows or
conventions. Once the show is started, it runs in a
continuous loop until someone presses the ESC key on the
keyboard.
When designing a self-running presentation, you can set
up the Slide Show to run with automatic timings, or you
can set it up so the viewer can move through the show with
mouse clicks.
The following steps show you how to create a
self-running kiosk presentation with automatic timings.
1. Automate your presentation using the three
steps shown above.
2. Click the Slide Show menu, then
click Set Up Show. The Set Up Show dialog box
will appear.
3. Under Show type, click Browsed at a kiosk
(full screen).
4. Under Advance slides, click Using
timings, if present.
Your presentation is now self-running. Once it is started,
it will loop over and over until someone hits the ESC key.
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